"And there he sits right now, he with his great, guileless, childlike mind plunged in deception-living under the same roof with that creature, not knowing that what he calls his home is built on a lie." Gregers obviously recognizes the facade that he believes Gina to be putting on. By referring to her as a "creature" he devalues her and shows that he believes she is also in part to blame for this as well as Werle, whom he is speaking to. He perceives both his father and Gina to be manipulative while Hjalmer is innocent. He paints a picture in which Gina and Werle have conspired to "plunge" Hjalmer into their deception while he remains naiive.
"But what else could I do? I've put ads in the papers time and again."
"Yes, ads, ads-you see whwat a help they are. And of course nobody's been to look at the spare room either?
"No, not yet."
"That was to be expected. If one doesn't keep wide awake-Gina, you've simply got to pull yourself together."
This conversation between Gina and Hjalmer shows that Hjalmer perceives Gina to be irresponsible and inadequate. His tone is condescending when he sarcastically remarks "you see what a help they are" when she defends herself by saying she's been putting ads in the paper. And then again when he says "And of course nobody's..." his sarcastic, condecensing tone displays that he perceives himself to be the responsible one, while Gina just never does any of the jobs she supposed to be doing. He speaks to her almost as if she is a child.
Gina doesn't contradict Hjalmer but at the beginning of Act 2, before Hjalmer gets home, Gina is seen calculating the expenses and talking about running the photography business with Hedvig. She obviously knows that she is not childlike or irresponsible and in fact she is doing a lot of the work involved in keeping the family together while Hjalmer goes off to a fancy dinner party. Since Gina doesn't say this, she must perceive that Hjalmer can't handle it. She recognizes that Hjalmer has a false perception of himself but she allows it to continue and simply ignores it.
"Gregers- I don't believe there's a man in this world you hate as much as me" When Werle is speaking to Gregers he openly admits that he knows that Gregers perceives him as being a "bad guy" and a liar and a manipulator and he doesn't contradict him at all. He embraces what Gregers perceives him as and doesn't try to fight with him about it. He simply lets it go. However, Gregers doesn't seem to understand this since he still never specifically accuses his father of anything. He just goes up to that line and then backs down. So Gregers obviously perceives his father as being unable or unwilling to listen to it when in reality he isn't rejecting it at all.
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